To strengthen and upgrade the civic services, East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has planned to outsource 50 public conveniences at specified locations in its area for conversion into smart toilets with advertisement rights and commercial space in limited areas at the toilets on "design, built, operate and transfer" (DBOT) basis.
A senior EDMC official said that the public toilets will be operated, managed and maintained on “Free User Charge Basis” only for a period of 10 years.
EDMC Commissioner Vikas Anand said that the East Corporation has invited the proposal based on 'Public Private Partnership' (PPP) mode to convert 50 toilets into smart toilets in the area.
"The agency will be given 35 square feet of space with each toilet for commercial use, along with the right to display advertisements on that toilet," he said. Anand also informed that earlier the corporation had called for tenders by fixing at least license fee of Rs 10 lakh per month, but no agency had applied.
“Subsequently, the license fee was reduced from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 8 lakh. Yet neither party showed any interest in the proposal. Therefore, it has now been decided that the decision of payment of minimum license fee should now be left to the interested party and tenders are being called again,” he added.